Lee Atchison
Cloud Strategist, Thought Leader, Industry Cloud Expert
Thought Leader
Lee Atchison is a recognized industry thought leader in cloud computing. He has committed his career to architecting and building high scale, cloud-based, service-oriented, SaaS applications. He has specific expertise in building highly available systems.
Lee is the author of the best-selling book Architecting For Scale, published by O’Reilly Media. The book, originally released in 2016, recently went through a major upgrade and was released as the second edition in 2020.
Lee is a widely quoted thought leader in publications such as Diginomica, IT Brief, Programmable Web, CIO Review, and DZone. He has been a featured speaker at events across the globe from London to Sydney, Tokyo to Paris, and all over North America.
You can see some of Lee’s articles, publications, speaking sessions, webinars, podcasts, and other content on this website.

Lee is an outstanding Architect andDirector / Manager. He has a passion forexcellence that shows in his work and throughthe work of his team. On top of that he is ableto led by example as his ability to develop issecond to none.
I love working with Lee: so talented,customer centric, always well prepared,collaborative and willing to go the extramile to make our customers successful.
I urge you, in your journey as part of thisexciting explosion of new systems and productsand companies, to do the same: to learn fromLee in building your systems for scale.
Lee is an outstanding Architect andDirector / Manager. He has a passion forexcellence that shows in his work and throughthe work of his team. On top of that he is ableto led by example as his ability to develop issecond to none.